Lauren Spierer: 2,000 attend Indiana concert for missing student

Sep. 24, 2011

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An estimated 2,000 people gathered in a steady rain for an awareness concert dedicated to Lauren Spierer, the Indiana University student from Greenburgh missing since June.

The concert Thursday night at Dunn Meadow on Indiana University's Bloomington campus included pleas from Hoosiers basketball coach Tom Crean and others for information about what happened to 20-year-old Spierer.

She disappeared June 3 after a night out with friends in downtown Bloomington.

The Herald-Times reports that Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg told the crowd that, for every evil person, many more people have done what they can to find Spierer and prevent similar things from happening.

WTHR-TV reported that Charlene Spierer, Lauren's mother, said she wanted to keep her daughter's story in people's minds because it would be a tragedy to let her disappear again.